Triumph TR7 Restoration

The TR7 Restoration has been a work in progress for over a decade now. This section is imported from an old blog I used to run back in the day, alongside the YouTube video uploads I’ve done by way of continuing the blog.

Wheelarch Continued

After all the stripping down, I got on with welding the patches in this week. They needed to be fairly level as I’d be welding bits on to them, and this isn’t really one of my best skills. Nevertheless, I think they came out alright: They’re not exactly invisible (I’m not that good!), but once […]

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Wheelarch & Battery Tray

I’ve been a bit busy over the last couple of days, so this post is a little out of date. Anyway: As mentioned in the last post, I had a plan together to tackle the welding and bodywork that needed doing. That was started at the weekend with the removal of the wheelarch. I didn’t

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Welding Plan

After poking around the nearside wheelarch and footwell, it seems that the rust is a bit more serious than I first thought. There’s a hole in the footwell, obviously from the disintegrating sill area: Apart from the corner bit it’s nothing too bad, although the crossmember underneath may prove tricky. Of more concern is the

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Wings & Doors

The stripping down continued this week; to start with, the doors came out earlier on this week. No problems to report, except discovering the top hinge on the passenger door was close to falling off! There’s two pins in the hinge, the lower one was missing altogether and the top one was sticking halfway out.

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Engine Removal

The engine and box came out this weekend. 🙂 The first job was to pick up the engine hoist. I’d arranged to borrow one of the works vans for the weekend, but ended up having to go and collect a hire van for work, and pick the hoist up in it on the way back.

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Stripping The Engine

Now that the car is the right way round, I carried on with preparing the engine for removal and stripping everything out of the engine bay. It took me about four hours, but it’s all more or less done now. Apart from a couple of jubilee clips that were rusted solid (I hacksawed a couple

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Turning Around

I managed to get the car turned around today, now I can start work on the front end at last. Wheels on, back on the ground: And out of the garage, blinking in the sunshine: And with one proud owner: Now the bad bits: There’s a bit more rust than I’d really like, but nothing

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